News With Ed -- May 04, 2016

Published time: 5 May, 2016 02:14

EXCLUSIVE: Medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of deaths in the US Do you know how good your doctor is? Doctors are human and are therefore prone to mistakes as medical errors kill more than 250,000 Americans every year, amounting to the third leading cause of death in the nation. For more on this, ‘News With Ed’ is joined by Dr. Martin Makary, who lead the research on deaths by medical error.

Michigan is a ‘3rd world sate’ with Flint, Detroit water shutoffs, and public ed. crisis – Reverend President Barack Obama was in the beleaguered Michigan City of Flint for a briefing, community meeting, and speech amid allegations of “willful and criminal neglect” over its poison water crisis. This comes as the neighboring city of Detroit’s Water and Sewerage Department announced it will begin turning off water service for as many as 20,000 of its customers who are behind on paying their bills. For more on this, ‘News With Ed’ is joined by Rev. David Alexander Bullock from Michigan.